Strain Specific Synaptic Modifications on Ventral Tegmental Area Dopamine Neurons After Ethanol Exposure

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 646-653

  Wanat, Matthew J ^a,b   Sparta, Dennis R ^b   Hopf, F Woodward ^b   Bowers, M Scott ^b   Melis, Miriam ^c   Bonci, Antonello ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

C57; DBA; dopamine; ethanol; plasticity; VTA

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ALCOHOL; AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DBA MOUSE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; ETHANOL; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 62749115142     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2008.10.042     Document Type: Article

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